DENTON, Texas — As the North Texas ice melted from last week’s winter blast, Beto O’Rourke on Sunday continued his effort to put the heat on Gov. Greg Abbott for his handling of the 2021 storm that left millions without power and killed more than 240 people.
“The people of Texas understand the failure in leadership,” O’Rourke told The Dallas Morning News. “When we see reporting that tells us that the primary causes for the outage last year have yet to be fixed, like the gas supply, we all know that more changes need to be made, and it looks like we’re not going to get those changes made until we make a change at the top.”
On the third day of his 20-city, 10-day “Keeping the Lights On Tour,” O’Rourke made appearances in Dallas and Denton, highlighted by a visit with Steven Brown, a 24-year-old Dallas man who had his legs amputated last year after developing frostbite during the storm. O’Rourke also staged a rally at a Denton park, where he urged Texans to hold Abbott and others accountable.
